Mobile Schools

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Schaller ◽  
Ruth Würzle
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Individualized Learning ◽  
Northern Kenya ◽  
Material Development ◽  
Heterogeneous Learning ◽  
Nomadic Communities

How can children in nomadic communities get access to education? This publication deals with the necessity and the development of a mobile school system for pastoralists (wandering shepherds) in Northern Kenya. The underlying system Ladders of Learning guides pupils and teachers with a reliable system for individualized learning in heterogeneous learning communities. The book gives a practical insight into international development cooperation, learning material development and teacher training in the school development project INES (Illeret Nomadic Education System).

scholarly journals ANÁLISIS DE LA GESTIÓN DE PROYECTOS DE DESARROLLO CON UN MODELO DE POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS. EL CASO DEL PROYECTO DESARROLLO SOCIAL INTEGRADO Y SOSTENIBLE (PRODESIS) EN CHIAPAS

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Manuel Ignacio Martínez Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Development Project ◽  
The State ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
International Development Cooperation

Los estudios de políticas públicas son una herramienta analítica provechosa para la gestión pública pues permiten examinar el diseño, proceso y resultados de una intervención pública evaluando el contexto en el que ésta se implementa. No obstante, las evaluaciones sobre los proyectos de la cooperación internacional al desarrollo prácticamente han ignorado los estudios de las políticas públicas. Es así que este trabajo expone una propuesta de modelo de análisis de la gestión de los proyectos de cooperación al desarrollo basada en el campo de las políticas públicas. Dicha propuesta se aplica en el análisis de la gestión pública de un proyecto de cooperación al desarrollo implementado en el estado de Chiapas: el Proyecto Desarrollo Social Integrado y Sostenible (Prodesis).   ABSTRACTPublic policy studies are a useful analytic tool for public management since they make it possible to examine the design, process and results of a public intervention, evaluating the context in which it is being implemented. Nevertheless, the assessment of international development cooperation projects has practically ignored these studies. This work thus presents a model for analyzing the management of development cooperation projects based on the field of public policies. This proposal is used to analyze public management of a cooperation development project implemented in the State of Chiapas: the Integrated and Sustainable Social Development Project called Prodesis.

scholarly journals The Role of Donor Agencies in Promoting Standardized Project Management in the Spanish Development Non-Government Organizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1490
Author(s):  
Agustín Moya-Colorado ◽  
Nina León-Bolaños ◽  
José L. Yagüe-Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
International Development ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Funding Mechanisms ◽  
Donor Agencies

Project management is an autonomous discipline that is applied to a huge diversity of activity sectors and that has evolved enormously over the last decades. International Development Cooperation has incorporated some of this discipline’s tools into its professional practice, but many gaps remain. This article analyzes donor agencies’ project management approaches in their funding mechanisms for projects implemented by non-governmental organizations. As case study, we look at the Spanish decentralized donor agencies (Spanish autonomous communities). The analysis uses the PM2 project management methodology of the European Commission, as comparison framework, to assess and systematize the documentation, requirements, and project management tools that non-governmental organizations need to use and fulfill as a condition to access these donors’ project funding mechanisms. The analysis shows coincidence across donors in the priority given to project management areas linked to the iron triangle (scope, cost, and time) while other areas are mainly left unattended. The analysis also identifies industry-specific elements of interest (such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals) that need to be incorporated into project management practice in this field. The use of PM2 as benchmark provides a clear vision of the project management areas that donors could address to better support their non-governmental organization-implemented projects.

The Economics of the Soy Kit as an Appropriate Household Technology for Food Entrepreneurs

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-115
Author(s):  
Chungmann Kim ◽  
Peter Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Credit Access ◽  
Feed The Future ◽  
High Level

Background: The ability for women to operate as food entrepreneurs presents opportunities to leverage at-home production technologies that not only support family nutrition but also generate income. To these ends, the Feed the Future Malawi Agriculture Diversification Activity recently launched a development project involving a new technology, the Soy Kit. The Activity, a USAID (United States Agency for International Development) funded effort, sought to improve nutrition utilizing an underutilized local and highly nutritious feedstuff, soybean, through a woman’s entrepreneurship scheme. Objective: The USAID funded effort provides the overarching research question, whether the Soy Kit is a sustainable technology for delivering nutrition and income through a women’s entrepreneurship scheme. If true, then development practitioners will have a valuable tool, and the associated evidence, to address the important crosscutting themes, of nutrition, poverty, entrepreneurship, and women’s empowerment. To answer this research question, the research team first evaluates the underlying production economics of the kit to measure profitability, return on investment, and operational performance. Second, the team qualitatively and quantitatively assesses the kit’s overall appropriateness as a technology for the developing world. Methods: The team follows the schema of Bower and Brown and utilizes descriptive statistics, and financial techniques to conduct an assessment of the economics and technical appropriateness of the Soy Kit technology. Results: The results show a high level of appropriateness across a number of metrics. For example, the payback period from cash flow is under 6 months and the annual return on capital is 163% when entrepreneurs utilize a domestically sourced kit valued at US$80. Conclusion: The technology matches well with the rhythm of household economy, in particular women’s labor availability and resource base. Businesses earn significant returns on capital thus appear to be sustainable without donor subsidy. At the same time, available capital to finance kit entrepreneurs appears to be scarce. More research needs to take place to address the credit access question, in order to make small-scale kit entrepreneur truly self-reliant; the effects on poverty reduction at the household and village level; and nutrition improvement among the consumers.

scholarly journals Innovation system formation in international development cooperation: The role of intermediaries in urban sanitation

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara J van Welie ◽  
Wouter P C Boon ◽  
Bernhard Truffer
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Global Innovation ◽  
Service Sectors ◽  
Intermediary Role ◽  
International Development Cooperation

Abstract The transformation of urban basic service sectors towards more sustainability is one of the ‘grand challenges’ for public policy, globally. A particular urgent problem is the provision of sanitation in cities in low-income countries. The globally dominant centralised sewerage approach has proven incapable to reach many of the urban poor. Recently, an increasing number of actors in international development cooperation has started to develop alternative safely managed non-grid approaches. We approach their efforts as an emerging ‘global innovation system’ and investigate how its development can be supported by systemic intermediaries. We analyse the activities of the ‘Sustainable Sanitation Alliance’, an international network that coordinates activities in the sanitation sector and thereby supports this innovation system. The findings show how demand ing it is to fulfil an intermediary role in a global innovation system, because of the need to consider system processes at different scales, in each phase of system building.

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